Alejandra Palacios Created: March 16, 2021 05:18 PM The Minnesota Department of Health is calling on enhanced COVID-19 mitigation measures among youth athletes, parents and coaches after reports of a rapidly growing outbreak of a COVID-19 variant in Carver County. Schools across the Northland are taking these mitigation recommendations seriously. "We're seeing instances of infection in our youth and we are seeing it has some spread throughout sports teams and also through social gatherings," said Aubrie Hoover, the St. Louis County senior public health educator. "Our case rates have have tripled in the last two weeks for northern St. Louis County and we're seeing some upward trends in central St. Louis County which is a cause for concern."